Reading Pop: Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music Book

	Notes on the Contributors
	Introduction: Locating the Popular Music Text	1
Pt. 1	Analysing the Music	21
1	Randy Newman's Americana	27
2	Prince: Harmonic Analysis of 'Anna Stesia'	58
3	Analysing Popular Music: Theory, Method, and Practice	71
4	Popular Music Analysis and Musicology: Bridging the Gap	104
5	James Brown's 'Superbad' and the Double-Voiced Utterance	122
6	'Maybellene': Meaning and the Listening Subject	141
Pt. 2	Words and Music	161
7	His Name was in Lights: Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Goode'	165
8	Listening to Peter Gabriel's 'I Have the Touch'	183
9	Three Tributaries of 'The River'	192
10	Pity Peggy Sue	203
Pt. 3	Modes of Representation	229
11	Progressive Rock and Psychedelic Coding in the Work of Jimi Hendrix	235
12	'The Hieroglyphics of Love': The Torch Singers and Interpretation	262
13	Genre, Performance, and Ideology in the Early Songs of Irving Berlin	297
14	'Everybody's Lonesome for Somebody': Age, the Body, and Experience in the Music of Hank Williams	307
15	Postcolonialism on the Make: The Music of John Mellencamp, David Bowie, and John Zorn	329
16	Structural Relationships of Music and Images in Music Video	347
	Select Bibliography of Works Relevant to the Textual Analysis of Popular Music	379
	Index	383